Around 400 Indian feminists and members of womens' organizations gathered in front of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, demanding equal pay for equal work, women’s safety & other related issues. Police cracked down on the peaceful demonstration, making several arrests and injuries.
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Dozens of students gathered in front of the Athens Polytechnic University, demanding the halting of the law proposed by the Education Minister which would bring back police to university campuses across Greece. 2 banners were hung up, one espousing anti-capitalist views and another made by a graduate students' union demanding the end of cops on campus.
Dozens of protesters in the Bonilla neighborhood of Antofagasta dropped banners and clashed with police to demand the abolition of Carabineros (Chilean police) and the release of all political prisoners of the popular uprising. Fireworks were thrown by demonstrators in response to tear gas used by Carabineros, which entered the houses of several people.
Riot police attacked hundreds of anti-government protesters in Port-au-Prince demonstrating against the imperialist-backed mandate of President Jovenel Moise, seen by the public as a murderous dictator. Law enforcement & government-paid street gangs fired tear gas and terrorized participants in the attempted rally held in the middle of Haiti's capital.
Dozens of protesters in Villarrica marched against police impunity after the death of Camilo Miyaki in a police station and the murder of street juggler Francisco Martinez in Panguipulli. Youths torched the municipality after the march and placed barricades, demanding the abolition of police.
Dozens of protesters in Coquimbo clashed with Chilean law enforcement, known as Carabineros, during a demonstration demanding police abolition after the death of a man in a police station and the murder of a street juggler in Panguipulli for failing to present his ID.
Dozens of protesters in Quilpué marched to demand the abolition of the police in Chile after the police murder of a Panguipulli street juggler and the death of another man inside a police station. Demonstrators placed barricades to block traffic and occupied the city's main intersection, disrupting activity on a day of national mobilization.
Hundreds of Chilean protesters in the Santiago commune of Puente Alto marched to demand the abolition of police and the resignation of right-wing President Sebastian Piñera. Intense clashes with Carabineros (Chilean law enforcement) occurred, resulting in the torching of a gas station.
Around 50 protesters marched in Rancagua as part of a national mobilization demanding justice for the murder of a Panguipulli street juggler by Chilean police, known as Carabineros. Protesters blocked roads and burnt barricades in the city, disrupting activity and shutting down the main highway out of the Rancagua.
Hundreds of protesters marched in La Serena during a national mobilization after the murder of a Panguipulli street juggler by Chilean law enforcement known as Carabineros. Demonstrators blocked roads and built barricades, setting fires to disrupt activity in the city.
Women and feminist collectives took to the streets of the Techotiva neighborhood of the Kennedy district in Bogotá to demand that the Prosecutor's Office declare a national emergency due to the drastic increase in femicides across Colombia.
Around 35 protesters in New York gathered at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center amid reports of cold, confined, unhealthy, and unsafe conditions inside, as well as the war on crime in the city that keeps filling up jails.
Protesters in the Puente Alto commune of Santiago attacked Police Station No. 66 in the Bajos de Mena neighborhood with Molotov cocktails, burning down the front of the station after the repression that took place during the wake of Francisco Martínez, the street artist murdered by police in Panguipulli.
Dozens of Afro-Colombians protested in Buenaventura against government incompetence after an armed gang occupied the vital port city, with killings and disappearances rampantly occurring, mostly dissidents against the cartel holding control of the region.
Protesters in Miami participated in the weekly South Beach March for Black Lives, traveling through the city's island coastline.